Belatedly, Alabama lawmakers have passed a bill protecting access to in vitro fertilization. The measure came two weeks after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos […]
Tag: health care
Protect Affordable Care Act as enrollment grows
The glitches accompanying the Affordable Care Act’s rollout generated understandable criticism for years after its 2014 debut. But the landmark law’s successes deserve the spotlight, too. This […]
What got lost in obesity drug hype
by Lisa Jarvis This year, the incredible potential of obesity medicines like Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound started to come into view. The […]
Guest essay: Solutions for Morgantown’s health care landscape
by Tadd Haynes As president of UniCare West Virginia, a leading health care provider in the state, I take it as our responsibility to help drive health […]
New weight loss drugs are promising — and expensive
West Virginia has a weight problem. Forty-one percent of state residents are clinically obese, which is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of greater than […]
Guest essay: For West Virginians, paper health care information is a must
by Jennifer Brown There’s a reason we say that West Virginia is “Almost Heaven.” Our state’s wild and wonderful mountains and hollows are what make it special, […]
Why the Kaiser Permanente strike may signal more health care labor unrest
by Shira Fischer More than 75,000 nurses, nursing assistants, technicians, pharmacists and other health care workers at Kaiser Permanente went on strike in California and beyond this […]
Inflation Reduction Act helped make America healthier
by Jamie DeMarco and Vincent DeMarco The numbers are in. The Inflation Reduction Act has, in fact, helped to reduce inflation. The most recent numbers from the […]
Where’s urgency to treat long COVID?
by Julia Moore Vogel In a world where most pandemic safety protocols have evaporated, where is the sense of urgency to treat, or at the very least […]
Medical debt making Americans angry
by Noam N. Levey For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple case of pink eye that took four years to pay off. […]
